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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Much is promised in the expansive title of Haruki Murakami's 1985 novel. And much is delivered in the course of Hard- Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I will leave it to other readers to determine whether this books actually concludes with the “end of the world,” but along the way Murakami lives up to the ‘Wonderland’ designation, cramming wi…

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